14 - Infra-Bayesian Physicalism with Vanessa Kosoy
AXRP - the AI X-risk Research Podcast
Is There a Difference Between a Physical and a Simulation?
In some sense you cannot like if you're going with information physical isn't it your kind of commute you're committing to computations so committing to computation is means that there is no difference between a thing and a simulation of the thing. This is an interesting philosophical thing which you can find objection objection able or on the country you can find it kind of liberating in the sense that it kind of absolves you from all the philosophical conundrums, he says. "I don't know what's the basic substrate of the universe I just care about the computation yeah" “Do it really matter where the universe is made of strings or quarks and a fundamental level of something else?"
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